US Patent Issued to ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN (H.O.D.N. LUMC) on July 8 for "System and method for intermittent electrical modulation" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,488, issued on July 8, was assigned to ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN (H.O.D.N. LUMC) (Leiden, Netherlands).

"System and method for intermittent electrical modulation" was invented by Wouter R Van Furth (Leiden, Netherlands), Nienke R. Biermasz (Leiden, Netherlands) and Amir H. Zamanipoor Najafabadi (Leiden, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system and method, in which a distal end of an electrode is implanted in an organ, such as a pituitary gland, for intermittent electrical stimulation thereof and a proximal end of the electrode is provided with a connection plug, a distal end of which can ...